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Varietal Resistance and Use of Crude Plant Extracts in the Management of Field Pests in Green Gram (Vigna Radiata) in Machakos County, Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2022)Breeding has significantly improved drought tolerance in green gram but marked yield losses continue to emanate from field pest’s damage. Important pests of green gram are pod borers, Maruca testutalis (Geyer), aphids, ... -
Varieties Of Drug Abuse And Effects Among Injecting Drug Users In Nairobi County: A Case Study Of Sapta/global Fund Harm Reduction Drop-In Treatment Center
(University of Nairobi, 2016)The intensity of drug abuse and specifically injecting drug use (IDU) has been a major concern in recent years. Despite all the efforts being made to control the problem, more and more people get inducted and sucked into ... -
Variety Reduction Practices and Materials Control in Level 4-6 Hosptals in North Rift Region of Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2023)Organizations are focused on satisfying their customers, suppliers, and units by providing them with a variety of products to choose from, thus ignoring the aspect of variety reduction. Consequently, due to a lack of variety ... -
Vascular Access Methods and Their Pattern of Evolution for Left Heart Catheterization at the Kenyatta National and Karen Hospitals: a Retrospective Audit (2015-2020)
(University of Nairobi, 2023)Background: Cardiac catheterization is an invasive procedure that is used for diagnostic and /or interventional purposes for a wide range of cardiac diseases. Left heart cardiac catheterization entails insertion of a ... -
Vascular Access Profile of Haemodialysis Patients at Kenyatta National Hospital
(University of Nairobi, 2021)Background There is a rapidly growing population of patients with end stage kidney disease on hemodialysis in Kenya. The vascular access is a hemodialysis patients’ lifeline. Ideal vascular access planning should begin ... -
Vat Reforms and Revenue Productivity in Kenya (1990 - 2010)
(University of Nairobi, 2013)Kenyan government has been faced with constantly increasing development and recurrent expenditure with limited additional sources of revenue. A number of factors have contributed to this increase in government expenditures ... -
Vegetation and hydrologic responses to grazing Management in a south Kenya rangeland
(1996)Title: Vegetation and hydrologic responses to grazing management in a South Kenya rangeland ~ J.K. Mworia A study was conducted to evaluate the effects of three selected stocking densities ./ on infiltration rate, ... -
A vegetation and large herbivore species survey in Hell's gate national park, Naivasha - Kenya
(Department of Zoology, University of Nairobi, 1990) -
Vegetation and Wildlife
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Vegetation changes in Tsavo National Park (East) , Kenya
(University of NairobiFaculty of Science. University of Nairobi, 1982)The work examines medium- term ( ten-year period ) vegetation changes during 1971 - 1981 in Tsavo National Park ( East), Kenya, with reference to the role of elephants and fire regimes. It includes a detailed evaluation ... -
Vegetation characterization and large herbivore population changes at IL N'gwesi community conservancy, Laikipia district, Kenya
(University of NairobiSchool of Biological Science, University of Nairobi, 2007)This study was carried out at IL N'gwesi Community Conservancy in Mukogodo division of Laikipia District, between January and August 2001 and in September 2006. The overall objective of the study was to establish ... -
Vegetation Indices as Indicators of Drought, a Remote Sensing Perspective: a Case Study of Narok County
(University of Nairobi, 2023)Vegetation cover is essential in determining the health of ecosystems and critical in planning and management of environmental and land resources. This study aimed at establishing the correlation between vegetation cover ... -
A vegetation survey of Masai Mara game reserve, Narok District, Kenya
(University of Nairobi,Departments of Botany and Zoology, 1993-05)The work presented here is a study of the vegetation of Masai Mara Game Reserve, in the Narok District of the Rift Valley Province of Kenya. The study was carried out between May~ 1971 and August,1972, in the Research ... -
The vehicle assembly industry in Kenya: An economic evaluation
(Depatment of Economics, University of Nairobi, 1983)The manufacture and assembly of vehicles is more efficiently done in large plants where long production runs are possible. But small industrializing, developing countries have gone into both manufacture and assembly of ... -
Vehicle-size Selection For Road-based Transit Operating In Mixed Traffic –the Case Of Nairobi Thika Highway
(University of Nairobi, 2019)Vehicle size and type is one of the principal factors influencing the efficiency of transit service. This study sought to develop an approach to the optimization and selection of transit vehicle sizes for an uncoordinated ... -
Vendor Lock-in and Cloud Computing at Seven Seas Technologies Group (Sst)
(University of Nairobi, 2013)Over the past two years, major cloud vendors including Bluelock, Microsoft, Joyent, Rackspace,Terrernark and Amazon Web Services are all experiencing slow client growth for their cloud services. This has been attributed ... -
A Vendor Neutral Quality of Service Monitoring Model for Software as a Service Cloud Computing Solutions
(University of Nairobi, 2022)The large number of providers of cloud services, offering comparable solutions marketed at different prices and at distinctive Quality of Service (QoS) levels, portends a decision challenge to users. The users have to make ... -
The veneration of the prophet : The role of Kasida ya Hamziyyah during the Maulidi festival of the Lamu Archipelago, Kenya
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Ventilatory function of asthhate children in stable state seen at Kenyatta National Hospital
(University Of Nairobi.College of Health Sciences, 1987)Ninety-one asthamatic children aged 5-13 years and 92 controls matched for age and sex were systematically selected to perform ventilatory Dctiontests. There was a highly significant difference between patients and ... -
Ventriculo-peritoneal Shunt Survival at the Kenyatta National Hospital: a Registry Based Assessment
(University of Nairobi, 2017)Background: Hydrocephalus remains one of the common conditions managed by any neurosurgical service. A VP shunt complication is a major obstacle in the management of hydrocephalus. Analysis of data and outcomes in relation ...